There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

But for you to make this move would reveal the two fundamental tenets of true atheism. One: There is no God. Two: I hate Him.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.

One of the most important thing in families, both for children and spouses, is never to close off possibilities - particularly never to make demands or threats.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

I like food way too much to not eat.

Kids ... can get to the point where they feel peer pressure that isn't even there simply because of how they see themselves.

Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.